Page 1321 - Week 07 - Thursday, 24 August 1989
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Mr Humphries: It is a compromise.
MR DUBY: It is not a compromise; it is a defeat for you lot. I am just pleased that it is about time it is recognised, with Mr Kaine huffing and puffing in front of the public gallery - he got a full house - saying, "Goodness, gracious, why didn't we support the Bill in the first place? We shouldn't have had all this committee work. We should have just accepted it meekly and mildly". The fact is we did not want it; we would not accept it. What we have got now is acceptable, and I support it.
DR KINLOCH (11.33): Mr Speaker, I would like to read a paragraph I wrote, thinking it might be helpful:
This has been a most interesting debate, and mainly a responsible debate. We are all aware of the new mood in the Assembly this morning and a happy absence of personal conflict.
I will now, alas, have to withdraw that particular paragraph, but there has been a quite enjoyable mood in the house. I think there have been a few odd remarks that perhaps enlivened us at this time of the morning.
I would like to welcome this Bill and welcome the ways in which the Bill protects civil liberties, and I speak as a member of a civil liberties association. We were worried about that in the first instance, and that is now protected. I do feel that some of the remarks made around the chamber were, unfortunately, attacked by other members, but I am quite sure that from this point on there will be no more such attacks in this debate.
MR STEFANIAK (11.35): I was actually rather interested in the outburst by my friend "Mr Five Per Cent" over there, just recently. Perhaps, understanding figures, one of the first things I should say is that the move-on power, the move to give police move-on powers, in whatever form, is supported by 70 per cent of the Canberra population. I think maybe that has had something to do with some of the attitudes which are expressed, somewhat latently perhaps, here today.
Firstly, Mr Speaker, I want to make a couple of comments in relation to what the Chief Minister and also Mr Berry, from the Labor Party, have said. Let me firstly say that I am gladdened by some of the remarks of the Chief Minister, who has, until today, consistently opposed any type of move-on power. I am not quite so sure after today and the remarks she made. She certainly appreciates figures very well, and that figure of 70 per cent support in that opinion poll must have struck home.
A number of speakers have spoken about concerns of youth in relation to this move-on power. During the debate, a lot of
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